Minister for Environment and Climate Change

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Scotland

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The Minister for Environment and Climate Change is a Junior ministerial post in the Scottish Government. As a result, the minister does not attend the Scottish Cabinet unless his / her Cabinet Secretary is absent. The post was created in May 2007 after the appointment of the Scottish National Party minority administration and the minister reports to the Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and the Environment, who has overall responsibility for the portfolio, and is a member of cabinet. The Minister for Environment and Climate Change takes the lead role in environment and natural heritage, crofting, forestry, aquaculture, sport fishing, land reform, access, water quality regulation, sustainable development and climate change.^[1]

History

In the first Dewar Government, the environment brief was the responsibility of the Minister for Transport and Environment and the Deputy Minister for Fisheries and Land Reform, changing to the Minister of the Environment, Sport and Culture and the Deputy Minister for Rural Development from 2000 to 2001. From 2001 and 2007, environment was combined with the rural affairs brief for the Minister for the Environment and Rural Development, with the associated deputy post of Deputy Minister for Environment and Rural Development. The Salmond government, elected following the Scottish Parliament election, 2007 created the junior post of the Minister for Environment who assists the Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and the Environment, in the Scottish Executive Environment and Rural Affairs Department. In 2010 Climate Change was added to the Environment portfolio becoming Minister for Environment and Climate Change.

List of office holders

The Minister for Environment and Climate Change is Stewart Stevenson MSP.^[2]

Deputy Minister for Fisheries and Land Reform
		Name	Entered Office	Left Office	Party
	1.	John Home Robertson	19 May 1999	2 November 2000	Labour
Deputy Minister for Rural Development
	2.	Rhona Brankin	2 November 2000	29 November 2001	Labour
Deputy Minister for Environment and Rural Development
	3.	Allan Wilson	29 November 2001	1 October 2004	Labour
	4.	Lewis Macdonald	1 October 2004	27 June 2005	Labour
	5.	Rhona Brankin	27 June 2005	14 November 2006	Labour
	6.	Sarah Boyack	14 November 2006	17 May 2007	Labour
Minister for Environment
	7.	Michael Russell	17 May 2007	12 February 2009	Scottish National Party
	8.	Roseanna Cunningham	12 February 2009	11 December 2010	Scottish National Party
Minister for Environment and Climate Change
	9.	Roseanna Cunningham	11 December 2010	24 May 2011	Scottish National Party
	10.	Stewart Stevenson	25 May 2011	Incumbent	Scottish National Party

See also

• Scottish Parliament
• Question Time
• Scottish Government

References

1. ^ "Scottish Executive - Scottish Cabinet and Ministers". Scottish Executive. http://www.scotland.gov.uk/About/Scottish-Cabinet. Retrieved 2007-07-25. 
2. ^ "Salmond completes SNP majority government". BBC News. 20 May 2011. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-13468304. Retrieved 21 May 2011. 

External links

• Scottish Ministers - the Scottish Cabinet
• Minister for Environment and Climate Change - Scottish Government